“Bring to woods and fields your own true love, lay you down upon the fertile ground. As you languish in each tender move, pray the Gods to bless the joy you’ve found”. These words from my song, Gods and Lovers, set a mood of romance, sexuality and love! As the Goddess has told us, “…all …
The Song Meadow Awakens Begins In the very early spring of 2020 I was asked to write a poem for Circle Sanctuary to celebrate Imbolc, using a picture of one of the springtime meadows in the sanctuary as a reference. Gazing at the photo of a green meadow nestled at the base of some foothills …
In this post, I’ll share the story of my song Dua Bast. The Crow Women recently released it on our new album Pantheon: Honoring the Pagan Divine. I hope you’ll sing this chant when you want to honor the Egyptian cat Goddess Bast. Finding the song It was 2016, and I was driving home after …
The big meal is over, we survived not talking politics and then everyone went home. The food was great and as soon as I’m done writing this and getting it sent off, I will be making my famous turkey soup. It does take several hours, but is so worth it and lasts for weeks…. The …
Sitting in the waiting room of a surgical hospital is how I spent election morning. Wondering if the surgeon would be able to concentrate as he repaired the tiny holes in my sister’s ear, and would she still maintain any hearing in her right ear? I sat there with my nephew, waiting for her surgery …
Most of the inspiration for my songs comes from nature, things that impressed or distressed me deeply. Of course, one such subject that has a great impact upon me, as it does with many of the pagan fraternities worldwide is the prolific deforestation and habitat destruction leading to biodiversity loss on a massive scale. This …
Thanks to Gaia and the Green ManThanks to the blessed land.Tend the garden with rakes and hoes,The harvest basket overflows. That’s they opening of Garden Harvest Song, which I recorded with my band, the Crow Women. (The link to listen to the song is at the end of this post.) Writing about gardening brings up …
Here we are, walking the wheel again. Familiar pathways lead through time, all the same yet not the same. Ever onward through the ways, on these spirals of change. Our journey brings us to Samhain, the time of the final harvest of the year when the fields are burned and the last of the crops …
The Dark Season is sweeping down upon us, so here’s a spot of dark work I will be recording soon. “Life’s the parade of the dyingIt’s the dance of the already dead.We’re dancing away every momentTo the music that plays in our heads…” As many of you know, I grew up on a working farm. …
As I sat trying to make a final decision on what to write about for this blog, I came back again and again to changes. It feels like the world is spinning at an incredibly fast pace. Changes come at us from a million different directions. About the best we can do is hold on …
